Word: bogarting
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...That was a fine article on Humphrey Bogart [Feb. 7], one of America's greatest actors. Never has the idolatory of such a cult been so deservedly bestowed. The uncommon good sense of the Harvards is very encouraging...
...think that the somewhat feverish Bogey revival now being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations...
...what else is new? The Circle Theatre in Washington, D.C., has run several Humphrey Bogart film festivals in the past five years. There are those of us in this provincial capital who were looking at 'em, kid, long before Our Hero was discovered by the Harvard Yard...
...collective heart went boom as the group rocked its way through five sounds from their now-classic album "Meet the Beatles." Students gathered around T.V. sets wherever they could be found, anticipating every word of the songs as they came over the air. A Humphrey-Bogart type in Quincy had an identity exists. Two 'Cliffies in Moors Hall turned down dates so they could listen to the Beatles in private homage instead...
Time, in its puerile eagerness to portray the Harvard undergraduate as giddy and faddish, has stumbled blindly past the deepest source of Bogart's popularity. Ah, Time, beneath that rugged grain lie vast wellsprings of tender vulnerability. Behind the carpe diem don't-give-a-damn throb the profundities of ultimate concern. To Time, Bogey, in sex as in all, is hard-boiled egoistic opportunist. We know what he is really after. A little bare Thou...